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Adrian’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Adrian’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Adrian Osborne
Goodreads Author
Born
in Goulburn, Australia
Genre
Influences
Earnest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck
Member Since
September 2014
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A Thousand Miles from Anywhere Important
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2014
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“There are only a handful of events in our life that really challenge us and define who we are. Unfortunately, many of us fail to recognise these events at the time.”
― A Thousand Miles from Anywhere Important
― A Thousand Miles from Anywhere Important
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“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.”
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“Every person receives two educations in life; one they receive from others, and; more importantly, the one they give themselves.”
― Old pioneering days in the sunny south
― Old pioneering days in the sunny south
“There is nothing at the end of any road better than may be found beside it.”
― The Icknield Way
― The Icknield Way
“There are only a handful of events in our life that really challenge us and define who we are. Unfortunately, many of us fail to recognise these events at the time.”
― A Thousand Miles from Anywhere Important
― A Thousand Miles from Anywhere Important
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